Author: Mike Atkinson
Publisher: Aesculus Press Limited
Keywords: guide, survival, lemmings
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2004-09-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1904328296
ISBN-13: 9781904328292

Author: Dennis Chitty
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: ugly, facts, hypotheses, beautiful, commit, suicide, lemmings
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1996-04-25
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0195097866
ISBN-13: 9780195097863

In 1929, a group of scientists, including the author, working at the Bureau of Animal Population, Oxford University, began "the pursuit of the ecological Holy Grail", a scientific endeavor devoted to the search for the secret mechanisms behind biological life cycles as they occur in many animal populations. The results are presented here, in an account of science, not as it should be, but as it really is. Unlike nearly all science books which tell of successful ventures and satisfactory conclusions, this book reveals the harsher story of a scientific question left unanswered. Written by one o